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Google Steps Up Its Focus On Businesses

While the new WebM royalty-free video format from Google generated many headlines as the Google I/O conference kicked off in San Francisco yesterday, if you listened to yesterday’s keynote and followed the other news, it was clear that Google is squarely focused on services and products for enterprises. CEO Eric Schmidt has already characterized enterprises as Google’s “next billion dollar opportunity,” but only now is it becoming clear how serious Google is about the effort. One of the big themes during the keynote yesterday, and elsewhere at Google I/O, has been enterprise-focused application development

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Zend, The PHP Leader, Gets Another $9 Million In Funding

Cupertino, California-based Zend Technologies, which produces products for developing, deploying and managing business PHP applications, today announced that it has received $9 million in venture funding led by Greylock Partners (a current investor), with participation from other Zend investors including Azure Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, SAP Ventures, and Walden. We’ve covered the company’s successful funding history before , and its rise alongside the increasing popularity of PHP. According to the company, Zend now has more than 1,000,000 registered users.

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Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?

Today, in a piece called ” Google-Microsoft rivalry comes down to clouds or software ,”  ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn considers the specific advantages that Google and Microsoft have relative to each other.

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Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?

OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

Reports to contrary , the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 doesn’t mean that OpenOffice.org is dead — or even wounded.

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OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

Reports to contrary , the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 doesn’t mean that OpenOffice.org is dead — or even wounded.

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OpenOffice.org Still Kicking